Jacqui Armstrong is a contemporary expressionist artist based in Perth, Western Australia. Her early love of art began as a young girl, immersed in art books, gallery visits, and the works of masters such as Vincent van Gogh and Salvador Dalí. Growing up on the rugged north-west coast of Tasmania, Jacqui later moved to Sydney in 1982 before settling in Perth in 2010.

For decades, life’s demands of raising a family and running a successful small business meant her artistic practice remained in the background. In 2020, as the world slowed during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jacqui returned to painting with renewed passion. Her instinctive and self-taught approach, free from formal constraints, has been shaped through experimentation and workshops with both Australian and international artists.

Drawn to the boundless freedom of abstraction, Jacqui explores colour, form, and texture as a way of telling deeply personal stories. Influenced by the expressive fluidity of Petra Schott and Beatriz Simón, her works capture raw emotion and a sense of place.

Since 2020, Jacqui’s paintings have been exhibited widely across Perth and regional Western Australia, and her art has been featured in Havenist, Artistcloseup, and Art Edit magazines. In 2025, she was shortlisted for the prestigious Claremont Art Awards, where her painting A Quiet Place received a ‘Highly Commended’. That same year, her work was also selected for Art for Aid with Perth Doctors-MAP at the Holmes à Court Gallery.

Jacqui continues to create from her Perth studio, where each new work becomes a dialogue between her inner world and the expressive language of abstraction.